[ANN] XML Cleaner - remove superfluous namespaces

[Victor Porton]

http://www.mathematics21.org/misc/xmlclean/

I wrote XML Cleaner (current version 0.1.1alpha).

This command line utility can remove superfluous namespace
declarations from XML files.

It is written in Ada95 with XMLAda (which needs to be patched).

XML Cleaner should grow into a general XML filter/validator
with other functions, such as removal of superfluous whitespace,
DTD entity expansion etc. etc.

Oh, years passed and World laziness was overcomed. It seems
that no one else has written a command line utility to clean
XML files from superfluous namespaces before.

 

[Peter Flynn]

http://www.mathematics21.org/misc/xmlclean/

I wrote XML Cleaner (current version 0.1.1alpha).

This command line utility can remove superfluous namespace
declarations from XML files.

It is written in Ada95 with XMLAda (which needs to be patched).

XML Cleaner should grow into a general XML filter/validator
with other functions, such as removal of superfluous whitespace,
DTD entity expansion etc. etc.

Oh, years passed and World laziness was overcomed. It seems
that no one else has written a command line utility to clean
XML files from superfluous namespaces before.

Possibly because you can do it in two lines of sed:

s/xmlns:[^=][^=]*=\("[^"][^"]*"\|'[^'][^']*'\)//
s/<\([/]*\)[^:][^:]*:/<\1/

///Peter

 

[Nick Kew]

Possibly because you can do it in two lines of sed:

s/xmlns:[^=][^=]*=\("[^"][^"]*"\|'[^'][^']*'\)//
s/<\([/]*\)[^:][^:]*:/<\1/

sssh. Two-line scripts wrapped in GUIs are a multi-billion business.